Update

It's been a while. As usual nowadays. Not really sure why my motivation with this has dropped off so much! I was doing so well. But hopefully it gets a renewed commitment from me for the summer. I have lots of plans and ideas for what I'm going to do this summer.
My number one goal is to get hired by Woods for the dream job thing (you may have seen it already in the papers!), which would let me travel across the country with Aj and get paid to do it while camping and making paintings and whatnot (and also blogging, don't worry). So you can cross your fingers for us cause we're going to apply!

Otherwise, I'll find other student type jobs in the city. I'm still at Supperworks, and I have applied to a Floral Designer's shop, and another pub. So we'll wait and see what happens!

I'm also planning on making a lot of paintings for my upcoming show at the Well. So stay tuned for those. 

I have a few pictures for you now:

Our neighbour's apartment had a fire last weekend. It was crazy, tons of firemen, and we finally met all of our neighbours in a really strange circumstance. He let us see the apartment afterwards, and there were all these old posters behind the walls. Creepy & really cool.

For Easter we spent some time with Aj's family and mine. Here's me and my sisters jammed in the back seat with grandma.

Egg decorating! Nice. Haven't done that in a while.

We have a lava lamp now. It's kind of old, so it's a bit gross sometimes. 

Most recent tat progress - all the green! 

Most recent tiny painting. It had to be made up of only layers of the primaries (yellow, blue, red, and white). So that's what it is. I didn't mix any of the colours, and you can kind of tell so when my critique is over, I'll be painting over it with mixed colours. And that's for sure.

Otherwise, I'm going to be studying my butt off this week, and finishing up all my final projects. Year two is pretty much over and I'm glad. I really liked it a lot more than last year, but that's a post for another day.

Love you guys, and miss keeping in touch on here. Pinky swear I'll do it again soon with an update on final projects.

xoxo

HP

I'm Having a Show & Also Some Pictures

Hey everyone. I've got news.
I'm having my very own show in The Well (cafe) in Alliston. It's gonna be in September, and the tentative gallery opening (party) is Thursday, September 3rd. I'm gonna be working my butt off this summer to have a bunch of cool stuff to show & hopefully sell right as school's starting up.

Yippeeee! So book that day off so you can make it ! All of you in Toronto have to try to make it to Alliston (hometown). It's not that far, and it's really cute.

Here's some pictures too:

I got a half sleeve on Saturday!! It's just the linework so far, but in two weeks I have a session to fill it in. There's a bunny in it! I didn't post it before cause it's the best part. Gotta save the best for last right.

Aj and I are working on a collaborative piece for our painting studio course, and this is where it's at right now. We've got an acrylic underpainting (mixed with a lot of iridescent medium NICE) down right now, and we'll be building on top of it in oil. So stay tuned!

This is before we painted on it. The measurement of the top of the cone is about 28", so they're pretty big, but small for two of us to be working on them. I think it's going to be fun. Also we stretched it with fabric instead of canvas and haven't decided if it was a good idea yet or not.

And here are our plans. They're super messy, but we know what it all means :)

Hope you've had a good week, I plan on posting more, but then I always do. 

If you're interested in doing a guest post, shoot me a message because I'd love to spice it up! 

xoxo 

HP

Prelims

Here's an encaustic portrait I'm working on right now. This is just the wax sketch, and I'm filling in everything but the face/hand with colour. It's changed a lot since I took this photo. I'll keep you posted as it develops. I also handed in a my silverpoint & egg tempura projects today so I have plans on sharing that soon as well.

In other news. Aj & I might do a collaboration project so that should be super cool.

Vin Pics

Our friend Vinnie Copelli took these, but I really like em. They're from grade 12. 

Here ya go.

Nica Painting & Short Update

Hi!
It's been a while. Because we didn't have internet in our new place until yesterday. FINALLY.
& Also I've had a crap ton of homework to do. So there will be lots of paintings coming ! I've got one for you today.

This one's based off of our trip to Nicaragua. The plants are from a pier in Granada at Lake Nicaragua, and the background is from a wall in our hotel in Granada.

We really loved Granada. It was a collage project for my painting studio.

It's 36x12" and if you want it you can totally buy it from me. 

I have plans to do a post about our new place (we're still looking for a subletter for April, so let me know if you need a place), and also about my ongoing projects. 

Also- my visa was reimbursed from the stolen card thing from Nicaragua, and I'm just waiting to hear back about my debit card. So you can cross your fingers that that works out for us. 

xooxo

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